It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribu….

History is absolutely my thing..

We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a….

You can learn a lot of things from being in movies..

A genius is the one most like himself..

I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and thea….

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox..

There is no happiness without patriotism..

I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born..

You're always allowed to be better..

Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of..

We could have chopped down the sycamore with this..

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?.

Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy..

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing..

What You were Once, Was Also Because You Were Someone Else Before that.

I get happy very easily and very often..

I've always loved improv. It's my thing..

LIVE for LIFE, but let live everybody.

You have no beginning of time. It's always been there..